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bringing conventions to database administration

Rbdb ?

The said project is a DB interface written in Rails and meant as a replacement for the classic phpMyAdmin. Not an extremely original idea I must confess but we found nonetheless a few reasons that motivated this project :
We found phpMyAdmin boring, ugly and feature-less. But we need it.

So what’s the difference ?

• Smart browsing between tables
• Smart display of foreign keys and fields
• Smart graphs and relation between tables
• Quick access to databases and tables
• Memorize the last tables visited and SQL queries executed
• In place edit on fields
• No need of PHP anymore on your production server !

Anything else ?

• Designed RESTfully
• Classic features you need like custom SQL requests

Demo Screencast

Origin of the project

Rbdb was born during The Rails Rumble 2008 (two days of rush). We took this contest as an opportunity to bootstrap a project we had in mind for some time.